Secret Service: Bullet Strikes White House Window

Editor’s note: This post was updated to include the arrest in the Friday shooting.

The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday it found a bullet that had struck a window at the White House, just days after shots rang out near the presidential residence.

The bullet went through the White House’s historic exterior glass but was stopped by a layer of bulletproof glass. Another round was found on the White House grounds. The Secret Service didn’t identify the type of bullet or which window was hit.

It’s unclear when the bullet struck the window and if there are more bullets on the White House grounds. President Barack Obama has been out of D.C. since Friday afternoon, and is currently in Australia.

The Secret Service said it isn’t certain whether the bullets found at the White House are connected to a nearby shooting Friday, after Mr. Obama left Washington. That incident led police to a car with an assault rifle in it. The suspect, Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 21 years old, was still at large when the bullets were first found. By Wednesday afternoon, however, the Secret Service said Pennsylvania State Police officers arrested him in a hotel near Indiana, Pa.

The Secret Service said agents in their Pittsburgh Field Office provided information that helped the state police find him. Ortega-Hernandez is in the custody of Pennsylvania State Police.

It’s unclear how the suspect got away Friday, as the area surrounding the White House is patrolled by the Secret Service, U.S. Park Police and local police.

A Secret Service spokesman confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was brought in to help investigate the shooting.